PECULIARITIES OF EXPERIMENTAL DATA PROCESSING IN DETERMINING THE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT IN THE BEARING CHAMBER OF GTE

Abstract

The development of gas turbine technology is accompanied by an increase in temperatures, pressures, and airflow velocity in the gas path. Increasing operating cycle parameters for gas turbine engine complicates the tasks of ensuring the permissible temperature state of engine parts, requires improving the methods of their calculation and design. This fact fully applies bearing assemblies, especially those operating in a hot environment, and causes interest in the study of thermohydraulic processes in the bearing chamber, which determines the temperature state of the rotor parts. The necessity of pressurizing the seals leads to the presence of the oil-air mixture in the bearing chamber. A wide range of operating parameters, flow inhomogeneity, phase disequilibrium, and phase separation significantly complicate the mathematical description of processes in the bearing chamber, including the use of CFD-modeling. Therefore, considerable attention is paid to experimental research. The experimental results are used not only to verify mathematical models but also to obtain generalizing dependencies. Most often, the desired value is the heat transfer coefficient in the oil cavity of the support. The article deals with the heat transfer features in the near-wall zone of the gas-turbine engine bearing chamber which were associated with the presence of oil-air flow. Also, approaches to the experimental determination of the heat transfer coefficient were analyzed and an appropriate system for measuring the local temperatures of the media was formed. The values of the error of the experimental heat transfer coefficient and the degree of influence of the determining factors were estimated. The contribution of the non-uniformity of the temperature field in the walls of the chamber and the uncertainty in the value of the temperature of the flow core was determined. The advantages of using the averaged heat transfer coefficient for engineering calculations and the significant influence of the averaging method on its value were also shown. Averaging over the heat flux density corresponds most accurately to the tasks of such calculations, at which the total heat flux through the chamber walls does not change.

Keywords

• газотурбинный двигатель
• масляная полость опоры
• коэффициент теплоотдачи
• экспериментальное исследование
• погрешность
• осредненные значения